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Local Budgeting

Local budgeting serves important functions that include setting priorities, planning, financial control over inputs, management of operations and accountability to citizens. These objectives give rise to technical and policy issues that require open discussion and debate. The format of the budget document can facilitate this debate. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of local budgeting needed to develop sound fiscal administration at the local level. Topics covered include fiscal administration, forecasting, fiscal discipline, fiscal transparency, integrity of revenue administration, budget formats, and processes including performance budgeting, and capital budgeting.

The format of the budget document can facilitate this debate. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of local budgeting needed to develop sound fiscal administration at the local level.

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000

Annotation This 12th Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics focuses mainly on four areas: new development thinking, crises and recovery, corporate governance and restructuring, and social security including public and private savings.

Volatility William Easterly, Roumeen Islam, and Joseph E. Stiglitz This article
explores the relationship between volatility in economic growth and various
institutional factors. Its main hypothesis is that in explaining volatility, the
traditional macroeconomic literature has overemphasized such factors as wage
and price rigidities and underemphasized factors relating to the financial system.
The financial system may act as a stabilizer that helps to cushion consumers and
producers from ...

Strategic management of family planning programs

Furthermore, a weak logistics system will hamper program growth and may have
many hidden costs such as inefficient use of transportation and staff time, wasted
commodities, low staff morale, and loss of clients. B. Logistics Information
Systems An analysis of management information systems in 40 developing
countries concluded, "The state of underdevelopment of logistics information
systems in all regions except Asia is striking and ... is no doubt a contributing
factor toward often ...

Central Bank Independence

A Critical View

The politics of inflation and central bank independence Goodman (1991) and
Posen (1994) argue that the staunchest political constituency for low inflation is
constituted by (private) banks. Banks' balance sheet structure (maturity
mismatching ...

Indonesia

Environment and Development

Indonesia has been remarkably successful in achieving its development objectives over the past 25 years. Although it is still a low-income country, its tradition of sound economic management has laid the foundations for continued progress in the decades ahead. As the Indonesian government formulates its second long-term development plan, issues of environmental quality and sustainability raise new concerns. This report examines environmental issues, assesses their implications for the achievement of development goals, and suggests an action plan that would help to ensure that those goals will be met. The analysis of current environmental conditions and trends and of the likely impact of future growth leads to three main conclusions: - Future growth will depend increasingly on Indonesia's stock of key natural resources and the sustainability of critical ecosystems. -The industrial sector will continue to expand in urban areas, where growing congestion and industrial pollution pose an immediate threat to health and human welfare. This will eventually lead to negative effects on the economy. -As a result of rapid growth, environment- related issues of equity among the population will become increasingly important.

... Pemerintah Indonesia telah mempersiapkan suatu "Tropical Forest Action Plan
" dan telah menyatakan maksudnya untuk menjamin bahwa "pengelolaan hutan
secara berkelanjutan" akan tercapai selambat-lambatnya pada tahun 2000.

Food Safety Issues in the Developing World

Food safety is receiving more attention worldwide with the rising incidence of foodborne disease, concern over new potential hazards, and growth in agricultural trade. Investments to improve food safety in developing countries can reduce the burden of disease and remove the barriers to fresh food product exports, providing another source of income for the rural sector. International disputes over sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures influence the ability of developing countries to compete in export markets. These countries need to evaluate their interest in the SPS agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO); participate more fully in international agencies responsible for harmonisation; develop the capacity to assess equivalence for process standards, which are increasingly used for fresh food products; and resist the imposition of inappropriate standards.

Why Food Safety? Food safety is an issue of growing importance due to several
worldwide trends in food systems. The growing movement of people, live animals
, and food products across borders, rapid urbanization in developing countries, ...

Managing Public Debt

From Diagnostics to Reform Implementation

High-quality public debt management plays a critical role in reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. With sound risk and cash management, effective coordination with fiscal and monetary policy, good governance, and adequate institutional and staff capacity in place, governments can develop and implement effective medium-term debt management strategies. Managing Public Debt: From Diagnostics to Reform Implementation draws insights from a joint pilot program set up by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to design relevant reform and capacity-building programs in twelve countries. The experiences of these geographically and economically diverse countries - Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Zambia - illustrate the challenges and elements necessary to make progress in the area of public debt management. Managing Public Debt will serve government officials contemplating or in the process of reforming their practices, providers of technical assistance, and practitioners working on building capacity in public debt management. Because effective implementation of debt management strategies also requires a developed domestic government debt market, readers will also be interested in the companion volume, Developing the Domestic Government Debt Market, published by The World Bank in February 2007, based on the same joint pilot program.

The contract signed with Anglo Leasing & Finance Limited was to finance, supply
, and install a new “immigration ... with the International Monetary Fund, which did
not allow Kenya to contract any foreign debt on commercial terms as long as ...

Understanding the Developing Metropolis

Lessons from the City Study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia

The author analyzes in great depth the structure of two Colombians cities, Bogotá and Cali, by modeling different markets and the behavior of individuals, household, firms, and government within these markets. He underlines the importance of understanding the behavior of the various actors in a city, and his use of simple economic reasoning contribute much to comprehension not only of urban behavior but also of the structure of the city itself. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).

The author analyzes in great depth the structure of two Colombians cities, Bogotá and Cali, by modeling different markets and the behavior of individuals, household, firms, and government within these markets.